Subj : Re: FMail 2.3.0.0 public beta release
To   : Stephen Walsh
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Mar 23 2024 01:37 am

Hi Stephen,

On 2024-03-23 10:36:58, you wrote to me:

SW>>> I just looked through what andrew did to add M68K support in
SW>>> Talisman BBS and it's not just a few lines of code...

WV>> Making the pkt code endianness agnostic isn't a big task. My pktviewer
WV>> code does it. I wrote it decades ago, so it would compile on both the
WV>> Amiga and PC. ;-)

SW> Do you want me to test it? Link to the code?

http://www.vlzn.nl/fmail/files/pktview-1.1-src.zip

WV>> But doing so for the three supported messagebases (msg, hudson, jam),
WV>> is a huge pain in the ass, because the code for these is all over the
WV>> place.

SW> It's a chicken & egg issue..

Indeed.

SW> Magicka supports JAM but is no longer supported.
SW> Talisman only supports squish, but is still supported!

SW> Both compile and work on M68K Linux!

Maybe I'll try to make the pkt code endianess agnostic first. If that works for you I could look at the message base code.

Does your compiler/environment have endian.h ?


Bye, Wilfred.

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